BIER and OSPF WGs, This version includes my very minor editorial comments. I fully support publication. I’d encourage others to review, comment, and hopefully support.
Thanks, Acee On 6/20/17, 12:20 PM, "BIER on behalf of [email protected]" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: > >A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts >directories. >This draft is a work item of the Bit Indexed Explicit Replication of the >IETF. > > Title : OSPF Extensions for BIER > Authors : Peter Psenak > Nagendra Kumar > IJsbrand Wijnands > Andrew Dolganow > Tony Przygienda > Jeffrey Zhang > Sam Aldrin > Filename : draft-ietf-bier-ospf-bier-extensions-06.txt > Pages : 9 > Date : 2017-06-20 > >Abstract: > Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is an architecture that > provides multicast forwarding through a "BIER domain" without > requiring intermediate routers to maintain multicast related per-flow > state. Neither does BIER require an explicit tree-building protocol > for its operation. A multicast data packet enters a BIER domain at a > "Bit-Forwarding Ingress Router" (BFIR), and leaves the BIER domain at > one or more "Bit-Forwarding Egress Routers" (BFERs). The BFIR router > adds a BIER header to the packet. Such header contains a bit-string > in which each bit represents exactly one BFER to forward the packet > to. The set of BFERs to which the multicast packet needs to be > forwarded is expressed by the according set of bits set in BIER > packet header. > > This document describes the OSPF protocol extension required for BIER > with MPLS encapsulation. > > >The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: >https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bier-ospf-bier-extensions/ > >There are also htmlized versions available at: >https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-bier-ospf-bier-extensions-06 >https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bier-ospf-bier-extensions >-06 > >A diff from the previous version is available at: >https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-bier-ospf-bier-extensions-06 > > >Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of >submission >until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. > >Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: >ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > >_______________________________________________ >BIER mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/bier _______________________________________________ OSPF mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ospf
